The Southern Manifesto

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After Brown v Board ended segregation in school there was a white backlash against it almost immediately. The Southern Manifesto was part of that backlash.

Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia described the opinion as “the most serious blow that has yet been struck against the rights of the states in a matter vitally affecting their authority and welfare.” At the time, Senator Byrd headed the “Byrd Machine,” Virginia’s most powerful political organization. He became the leading architect behind Virginia’s diehard segregationist campaign.

On February 25, 1956, Senator Byrd issued the call for “Massive Resistance” — a collection of laws passed in response to the Brown decision that aggressively tried to forestall and prevent school integration. For instance, the Massive Resistance doctrine included a law that punished any public school that integrated by eliminating its state funds and eventually closing the school.

"If we can organize the Southern States for massive resistance to this order I think that, in time, the rest of the country will realize that racial integration is not going to be accepted in the South.” Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 1954

In addition to legal and legislative resistance, the white population of the southern United States mobilized en masse to nullify the Supreme Court’s decree. In states across the South, whites set up private academies to educate their children, at first using public funds to support the attendance of their children in these segregated facilities, until the use of public funds was successfully challenged in court. In other instances, segregationists tried to intimidate black families by threats of violence and economic reprisals against plaintiffs in local cases.

The Southern Manifesto and "Massive Resistance" to Brown v. Board

After the unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board, southern legislators called for "massive resistance" to the ruling.

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Now today the same types are wanting to cancel the Dept. of Education.

 

[Stryder50]

After Brown v Board ended segregation in school there was a white backlash against it almost immediately. The Southern Manifesto was part of that backlash.

Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia described the opinion as “the most serious blow that has yet been struck against the rights of the states in a matter vitally affecting their authority and welfare.” At the time, Senator Byrd headed the “Byrd Machine,” Virginia’s most powerful political organization. He became the leading architect behind Virginia’s diehard segregationist campaign.

On February 25, 1956, Senator Byrd issued the call for “Massive Resistance” — a collection of laws passed in response to the Brown decision that aggressively tried to forestall and prevent school integration. For instance, the Massive Resistance doctrine included a law that punished any public school that integrated by eliminating its state funds and eventually closing the school.

In addition to legal and legislative resistance, the white population of the southern United States mobilized en masse to nullify the Supreme Court’s decree. In states across the South, whites set up private academies to educate their children, at first using public funds to support the attendance of their children in these segregated facilities, until the use of public funds was successfully challenged in court. In other instances, segregationists tried to intimidate black families by threats of violence and economic reprisals against plaintiffs in local cases.

The Southern Manifesto and "Massive Resistance" to Brown v. Board

After the unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board, southern legislators called for "massive resistance" to the ruling.

www.naacpldf.org

Now today the same types are wanting to cancel the Dept. of Education.

The "Fake News" is for your last, concluding sentence which is very inaccurate to the point of being a lie.

1) About Byrd;
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization.
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Harry F. Byrd - Wikipedia

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2) As for those advocating the FEDERAL Dept. of Education "be canceled", that revolves around redundancy of what is a State function and the waste of more taxpayer's monies; plus use of such to fund for provide political indoctrination of bias and anti-American propaganda.

 

[luiza]

Our residential obsessive crackpot is here again .

Old man IQ-2.0 remembering his childhood days .

Or, more accurately , remembering those parts that satisfy his lust for being a Racist .